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Monday, September 24, 2012

Obama's Apologies Should Be To America, Not Other Nations

Here’s the Nonsense:President Obama’s apologies to Muslim nations is a good way to build
friendships with them.

Here’s the Horse Sense:President Obama’s apologies to Muslim nations has done nothing other
than reinforce that America has weak leadership and that our nation is like a
dog that’s all bark and no bite.We need
leadership that demands respect first and builds friendships after respect is
established.

How’s that apology thing workin’ out for you Barack? We have
a president who went on an apology tour of the Muslim world when he first got
into office.Somehow he thought that
that would endear the Muslim nations to him and help relations between those
countries and America.Yet with all the
apologetic actions he’s taken during his term as president, it seems that those
countries are more hateful towards America than ever before.So has President Obama learned anything from
all of this or is he living Einstein’s definition of insanity? Obama's Apologies Should Be To America, Not Other Nations

Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity was to
do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.It seems that that’s how President Obama and
his administration are handling foreign relations.In fact, it’s how they’re handling
everything.And the results are that
things just keep getting worse.

If the attacks on our embassies in the Middle East along
with the deaths of American citizens wasn’t enough, President Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton essentially apologized to those who attacked
us, thereby repeating the actions this administration has shown throughout
their term in office.It is insulting
that someone would apologize for being American, which is essentially what
President Obama did when he didn’t stand up and defend America and our
Constitution against these direct attacks on us and our sovereign soil.

He continues to apologize for America and we continue to be
laughed at around the world.We are
looking just like we did to the world when Jimmy Carter was president (another
pitiful failure of a presidency).Now,
since he’s already proven himself a bigger failure than Mr. Carter, President
Obama seems to want to make sure there’s no doubt that he can do an even worse
job than he’s already done.

The film that we’re told offended Muslims and upon which the
Obama administration blamed the uprisings is still the scapegoat of choice for
Obama.Even though it’s now been
admitted that the film was not to blame and that Al Qaeda was behind the
attack that left Americans dead, the president won’t pass up another opportunity to make America look
weak to the world.He plans to speak to
the U. N. and condemn the film and filmmaker, which is, in essence, another
apology.

If that isn’t enough, he plans to release or transfer about
30% of the Guantanamo detainees.He must
think this is another chance to show the Muslim world that he is doing them a
kindness.

These ridiculous actions will do no good in improving
relations with thatpart of the
world.Why did Jimmy Carter have no
success in getting the Iranian hostages released during his term?Because they didn’t respect him.But when Ronald Reagan was elected the Iranians became receptive to negotiating the release and did release them on Reagan's inauguration day. Why?Because they respected him.

Some would say they feared Reagan, and I believe they
did.They knew he meant business.They knew that he was serious about the
safety of Americans.They knew they were
in big trouble if they held those hostages while he was president.That assured the safe release of those
hostages.

Respect is based on many things, one of which is fear.A healthy fear can be a good thing.Even a child knows how effective a healthy
fear is. When fear of punishment will be
the outcome of doing something wrong it can be very effective at keeping
behavior in control.When an employee
knows there’s consequences for bad behavior it helps keep their actions under
control.The relations of nations is
often no different than what it is like to deal with children or
employees.

This is something that President Obama does not
understand.It is obvious there was
little discipline in his upbringing and early life.He wouldn’t have been as involved with drugs
as he’s admitted he was if he was raised with appropriate discipline.And since he never really had a job before
becoming president, he hasn’t had an employer holding him accountable.Yes, yes, I know people will say he was a
community organizer (another word for promoter of social change as defined by
Saul Alinsky, the socialist/Marxist whose organization trained and employed
Obama as a community organizer).And
they’ll talk about being in the Illinois Senate and U. S. Senate, but by this
time I don’t think anyone who is thinking clearly can say that all elected
officials do much work, let alone be accountable to anyone.It doesn’t take much to be in a job where you
can get away with voting “present” all the time and suffer no repercussions.

No, President Obama’s life has been one that would give him
no experience at learning how to gain respect.Add that to his view that America isn’t an exceptional nation and since
he sees us as nothing special why would he even care if he stands up for our
nation?

While people are saying he has such a charismatic
personality, they are accusing Mitt Romney of being mannequin-like and saying
he’s running his campaign too much like a CEO.

Even if people
are right about Mitt Romney having a lack of personality (which I absolutely
disagree with), wouldn’t you rather have someone who knows how to run something
successfully and has a remarkable track record of past successes instead of a
person who not only has no real work experience, but also has a record of
nothing but failure?

If you think personality is
so important let’s look at it another way.If you needed heart surgery would you rather have a doctor with a great
personality but a terrible record of success or a doctor with little personality
and yet has had tremendous successes with his patients and is considered one of
the premier specialists in his field?If
my life is on the line I think I’ll take the guy with no personality.I would hope that you would do the same.

If your business
was in trouble and about to collapse would you prefer to get help to save your
business from the consultant with a great personality but a terrible record of
failure or the consultant who isn’t as personable but has had successes beyond
the vast majority of people in business?Once again, I’ll go with less personality.

And here’s a
thought.Maybe it’s not that Mitt
doesn’t have personality, maybe he’s just a quiet guy who is very thoughtful.Maybe his successes are based
on a high intellectual ability to analyze and develop solutions.The old saying that still waters run deep is
often very true and it might very well be that that’s what we’re seeing in Mitt
Romney.

We don’t need
apologies to save America, we need action.President Obama had the first two years of his administration with a
Democrat-controlled House and Senate.He
could have anything he wanted and yet didn’t do anything to help America.He only hurt our nation.Now he blames his failures on Republicans who
had absolutely no say during that time as to what was done.Mitt Romney is the candidate that has the
track record needed to turn this country around. Let's vote for real change this time and give America its hope back.

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